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Refugees arrive in Germany after crossing the border from Austria by foot

The glaring omissions in controlling the immense flood of asylum seekers, particularly last autumn, are coming back to haunt us

Joachim Hermann

Mr Hermann spoke out as an opinion poll put Mrs Merkel’s party at as its lowest level of support for four years.

Three Syrian asylum-seekers were arrested in a series of police raids on suspicion of planning an attack on behalf of ISIS.

It is believed they may have links to some of those involved in November’s Paris attacks, who also entered Europe as refugees.

Mr Hermann claimed thousands of migrants had been allowed to enter Germany without ever having their identities properly verified.

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Bavarian state interior minister Joachim Hermann

More than 1.1million asylum-seekers arrived in Germany last year leaving police unable to carry out adequate identity checks.

Mr Herrmann said: “It is extremely important that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees check over the personal data of all asylum seekers who have already arrived as quickly and meticulously as possible.

“We need strict border controls and clear identification of who is coming into our country.

“People whose identities cannot be made certain without any doubt must be held at the border, pending clarification.”

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Refugees board a specially-chartered train

Explosion in Ansbach

Mon, July 25, 2016

Ansbach explosion: Syrian asylum seeker killed by own bomb at German bar

Mr Herrmann’s comments are the latest in bitter war of words between Mrs Merkel and the Bavarian authorities over her refugee policy.

Leaders of Bavaria’s ruling Christian Social Union (CSU) party, officially a sister party to Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), have become some of her most outspoken critics.

Support for Mrs Merkel’s party is down to 32 per cent while backing for the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which inflicted damaging losses on the CDU in recent regional elections, is at 13 per cent.